In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Fairmont Southampton
101 South Shore Rd.
Southampton, Southampton, SN02
Bermuda

InMotion

For 19 years, the InMotion School of Dance has been providing dance and performance training for young Bermudians. Dance is a powerful ally to help children mature physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. It has been shown to improve memory, increase flexibility, and improve confidence in children.

No Strings

Johnny and Kathleen believe puppetry is a magical medium. Remember Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, the Fraggle Rock fraggles? Characters who live in your imagination, and enter your heart a little. It’s the same people behind these famous puppets who are making No Strings films. Films for children in ongoing crises around the world.

Barrington Irving

Aviator / STEM Education

Barrington Antonio Irving, Jr., C.D. (born November 11, 1983) was the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo, a feat he accomplished in 2007. He is also the first black person and first Jamaican to accomplish this feat. As of 2007, he was an aerospace student at Florida Memorial University. His airplane, a Columbia 400 (Cessna Corvalis 400), is named the "Inspiration", and was manufactured and assembled by the Columbia Aircraft Mfg. Co. in 2005, classified as a standard aircraft in the utility category using over $300,000 in donated parts. Irving was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in Miami, Florida.[12] He is a graduate of Miami Northwestern Senior High School. Irving turned down multiple football scholarship offers with his sights set on aviation. He later founded Experience Aviation, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering minority youth to pursue careers in aviation. His airplane, the "Inspiration", has been registered to Experience Aviation since 2

Bryan Davis

Bryan Davis is a prolific entrepreneur and inventor. Most recently he solved a 100 old chemestry problem, successfully recreating 20 year old aged rum in a lab reactor (an invention poised to revolutionize the industry). On the side, he is working on a drug discovery project that's currently in compound isolation phase. The hook -- Davis has an art degree. Everything else is learned from Google.

Clilly Castiglia

Clilly Castiglia joined Audience Entertainment as one of its founding members in 2007. A pioneer in crowd gaming, she co-produced the world’s largest mass audience motion capture game Squidball for Siggraph in 2004. Since joining Audience Entertainment Ms. Castiglia’s games have broken her previous record of 4,000 players in large venues, (both Audience Entertainment’s Rockcorp Event at Royal Albert Hall and the Lyon’s Festival of Lights, each featuring games involving over 20,000 players). Ms. Castiglia has served as the Director of Operations at the NYU Center for Advanced Technology as well as UK’s SMARTlab at University of East London and has extensive technical and management experience in computer vision, real-time animation and interaction systems with virtual characters, and design and production.

Martha Dismont

Martha Dismont is the Executive Director and founder of Family Centre, a Bermuda-based charity established in 1990 with the goal to provide therapeutic, clinical, wrap-around services to children and families in crisis.

Martijn Burger

Martijn is a director at the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO), a research centre at Erasmus University Rotterdam compiling data on determinants and consequences of happiness so people and organizations can make more informed choices.

Michael Frith

The former executive vice president, art director, designer and head of creative services over a 21-year career with the Jim Henson Company, Michael Frith has enjoyed a successful career in books, television and film, and other family entertainment project over 40 years, winning many awards and international recognition for his work.

Radhika Nagpal

Radhika Nagpal is the Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. At Harvard, she leads the Self-organizing Systems Research Group (SSR) and her research combines computer science, robotics, and biology. Her main area of interest is how cooperation can emerge or be programmed from large groups of simple agents. Radhika Nagpal is a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, where she heads the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group in the study of collective behavior in biological systems and how such behaviors can be applied to computing and robotics. A professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), her research draws on inspiration from social insects and multicellular biology, with the goal of creating globally robust systems made up of many cooperative parts.

Stuart Lacey

Investor and entrepreneur. Futurist, and established thought leader on Personal Data and Privacy. Published in Forbes, American Banker, FinExtra and Startup Collective; named by Bank Innovation as one of the 2015 Innovators to Watch - CEO’s who are Changing the Future of Banking. A multiple award-winning Member of the Young Presidents Organization; the Young Entrepreneur’s Council and The Institute of Directors; as well as a graduate of McGill University and the inventor of a number of industry defining patents all relating to the creation, sharing and monetization of customer data.

Tom Gage

Tom Gage is CEO and founder of EV Grid, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA company that develops and supplies technology for integrating electric vehicles, batteries, and the power grid. Previously, Mr. Gage was CEO of AC Propulsion, Inc., a leading supplier of electric vehicle technology which pioneered vehicle-to-grid charging systems.

Yesha Townsend

Yesha Townsend is a writer of all genres. She’s self published two poetry collections, illustrates an online comic strip and has been published in various journals. She also claims discovery of the persona of Po=t, a cartoon who while very self aware, is unaware that she is two dimensional and thus not human.